Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

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Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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A dead end street is a good place to turn around.
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I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.
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The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
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I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.
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I was about 10 when I got into nuclear science. That was when that spark hit me. It took a few years of research, but when I was 14, I produced my first nuclear-fusion reaction.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.
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All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise it becomes a polemic, and people don't want to see it. If you're trying to get a message out to people, you've got to entertain them at the same time.
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Not listening to people who care about you, not to be open or transparent, will make you isolated.
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As a woman, and as a working mom trying to get things done, you find yourself meeting adversity a lot, but you never talk about it because you don't want to bring attention to it. You don't want to go there.
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I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.
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To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.
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Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women.
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All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.
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I don't want to represent man as he is, but only as he might be.
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We should understand that in the context of the US, where our legal system is based in settler colonialism, capitalism and white supremacy, changing laws will never sufficiently change the conditions of harm and violence our movements seek to transform.
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We, the Poles, do not understand war as a symbol but as a real fight.
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Guns require a finger to pull the trigger.
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Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.